#reformed

It is better to lose your life than to waste it. ↗

— John Piper

#theology #life

The chief end of man is to glorify God and enjoy Him forever ↗

— Westminster Shorter Catechism

#history-of-philosophy #meaning-of-life #motto #motto-in-life #reformed

When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for. ↗

— John Milton

#bound #civil #civil liberty #complaints #considered

There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense. ↗

— Jeanette Rankin

#common #common sense #compromise #controlled #decency

I think that all areas of the budget have to be scrubbed. Clearly the entitlement issues have to be reformed and that's an issue that's going to require I think some strong bipartisan cooperation and leadership. ↗

— John Thune

#bipartisan #budget #clearly #cooperation #entitlement

I'm on record as being understood to be a supporter of a reformed establishment, in which other Christian denominations, and other faiths, play a major part. ↗

— George Carey

#christian #denominations #establishment #faiths #i

But at the same time, I think we recognize we can't impose democracy from without, particularly American-style democracy. We need to work with those elements in the region that are moving towards a reformed process and there are a number of them. ↗

— Frank Carlucci

#democracy #elements #i #i think #impose

Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn't. ↗

— John Piper

#reformed #theology #goals

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree. ↗

— Jonathan Edwards

#reformed #beauty

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins. ↗

— Thomas Brooks

#reformed #faith